Restrict Woocommerce shipping based on product category WordPress

Toss F. comments:

You may be close:

1. all shipping methods disappeared

2. Cart shows following error message:

<strong>Warning:</strong> call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function 'hide_shipping_if_cat_is_oranges' not found or invalid function name in <strong>/home/fruitie/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php</strong> on line <strong>192</strong>


<strong><em>Answers to your questions:</em></strong>

* only two (2) categories with many sub-categories in each

* three (3) shipping methods: UPS, Local Pickup, Local Delivery

* "Oranges" category and sub-cats should unset "UPS shipping"

Bob comments:

We need an internal names of shipping methods.
can you provide access.

We also need an id of categories.

Toss F. comments:

Sending you a PM.

Bob comments:

Please watch this video I have created for you.
[[LINK href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akuS8V61xys&feature=youtu.be"]]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akuS8V61xys&feature=youtu.be[[/LINK]]

Add this code to your functions.php and remove old code provided by me.
<strong>Don't forget to change category ids in code. In below example it is 569 and 570</strong>
// a function to check if the cart has product from organge and it's sub category id
function cart_has_product_with_orange_cats() {
//Check to see if user has product in cart
global $woocommerce;
//assigns a default negative value
$product_in_cart = false;

// start of the loop that fetches the cart items
foreach ( $woocommerce->cart->get_cart() as $cart_item_key => $values ) {

$_product = $values['data'];
$terms = get_the_terms( $_product->id, 'product_cat' );
// second level loop search, in case some items have several categories
if($terms){
foreach ($terms as $term) {
$_categoryid = $term->term_id;

if (( $_categoryid === 569 ) || ( $_categoryid === 570 ) ) {
//category is in cart!
$product_in_cart = true;

}
}

}
}
return $product_in_cart;
}



// add filter and function to hide method
add_filter( 'woocommerce_available_shipping_methods', 'custom_shipping_methods' , 10, 1 );
function custom_shipping_methods( $available_methods ){


if ( cart_has_product_with_orange_cats() ) {

foreach($available_methods as $key => $method){
if( $key == 'local_delivery' || $key == 'local_pickup'){
continue;
}
unset($available_methods[$key]);
}
// remove the rate you want
}

// return the available methods without the one you unset.
return $available_methods;

}

Bob comments:

have you tried above solution? please confirm so we can proceed with other changes.

Toss F. comments:

Done and workng fine. Okay to proceed.

Bob comments:

Thank You Toss I am working on it.

Bob comments:

Can we add some language which give both instructions to user? It would be easy for me to write a code.

Like "Cannot ship Oranges, local delivery and in-store pickup only. If you have Apples in your cart and want to shipped to you then please remove oranges."

Here is code to print message for user
Please add this code into your theme's functions.php file

add_action( 'woocommerce_before_checkout_form' , 'orange_product_notices' );
add_action('woocommerce_before_cart_table','orange_product_notices');
function orange_product_notices() {
global $woocommerce;
if(cart_has_product_with_orange_cats()){
wc_print_notice( "Cannot ship Oranges, local delivery and in-store pickup only. If you have Apples in your cart and want to shipped to you then please remove oranges.", $notice_type = 'notice' );
}
}


Toss F. comments:

Can a div be added to the message so it can be styled?

<div id="cart-message" or something like that?

Bob comments:

You can just simply change this line wc_print_notice( "Cannot ship Oranges, local delivery and in-store pickup only. If you have Apples in your cart and want to shipped to you then please remove oranges.", $notice_type = 'notice' );

just add like echo ' <div>your message</div>';